'Black Widow' Catherine Nevin Dies

20 February 2018

Catherine Nevin, also known as 'the Black Widdow' was sentenced to life in prison in the year 2000, after being convicted on four charges of murder and soliciting to murder her publican husband Tom on March 19, 1996, near Brittas Bay in County Wicklow.

Mr Nevin had been shot dead outside Jack White’s Inn, which he jointly owned with her

Her trial at the time was the longest and most high profile in Irish legal history, she had denied any involvement in her husbands murder.

During her time behind bars, she attempted to have the conviction declared a miscarriage of justice, but she lose that application back in 2010.

The 67 year old had been granted full-time temporary release from prison in September of last year after it had had emerged she was suffering from a brain tumor.

After being ill for a number of months she had passed away in a hospice last night.